On 6 June 1944, Allied troops landed on the coast of Normandy, France on D-Day. The German 2.Panzer Division was ordered to ...
Everything is ready for President Reagan to visit the German military cemetery at Bitburg this weekend. Most of the protests against the Bitburg trip have not been anti-German in motivation. Instead, ...
Robert Hébras, who by being shielded under dead bodies survived the infamous massacre of June 1944 in which members of an SS Panzer division killed almost everyone in the village of Oradour-sur-Glane ...
A good-time girl from Peru stopped the 15,000 men of a crack German SS panzer division in their tracks on D-Day. As British and American troops fought their way up the Normandy beaches on June 6, 1944 ...
Deep in the Eastern Front forests, we uncover incredible remnants from an SS Panzer Division forced to retreat in a hurry. Helmets, gear, and weapons left behind tell the story of chaos and collapse ...
IT WAS a sleepy village until all but six of its residents were massacred. Today, it remains a ghost town with burnt-out cars and bombed houses lining streets. It was a typical Saturday in Oradour-sur ...
The Battle of Aachen took place between Oct. 2 and Oct. 21, 1944, and was considered a major battle and the first city on German soil to be captured by the Allies. In this battle the Americans, ...
Players: Allies: General Miles Dempsey's 2nd Army, including 8th, 12th and 30th Corps; Lieutenant General Lewis Brereton's First Allied Airborne Army; Lieutenant General Frederick Browning's 1st ...